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You know you’ve really made it when Angelina Jolie shows up for your party.

The A-list actor, here at the San Diego Comic-Con to promote her new action flick, Salt, arrived unescorted. Her significant other, Brad Pitt, was apparently too busy on the set of his movie Moneyball to join her at the event, even though Pitt also has a movie at Comic-Con — the animated genre comedy Megamind, in which he voices a lead character, alongside Will Ferrell and Tina Fey.

Ferrell and Fey were on hand for the Megamind preview panel, and then to kibbutz with the press immediately thereafter. Jolie ducked out right after her public panel, where she was greeted by rapturous cheers and applause by a convention hall packed with more than 6,000 fans.

These were just two of the all-star highlights Thursday, only the first day of the four-day pop-culture extravaganza.

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The morning began with a rare public appearance by composer Danny Elfman, celebrating 25 years of collaboration with director Tim Burton. An imminent anniversary album of that movie music was announced at the convention by Warner Bros. Records.

The first actual film featured on opening day was the much-anticipated sequel to Tron, also a formidable presence on the convention floor, where the faithful clustered to ooh and ahh over one of the movie’s iconic “light cycles.”

Indeed, this was the Tron team’s third trip to Comic-Con — they were here last year, too, and the year before, even while still filming, to chat up the project and preview-screen some of the initial special-effects.

Comic-Con has become that important a launching-pad. “Comic-Con is very important for certain movies, in my opinion,” first-time director Joe Kosinski said. “And Tron seems like the perfect match of movie and venue.

“There was a test piece that we showed last year. . . . It was just in 2-D, and that piece of footage we showed unannounced to this convention created a firestorm of excitement and interest and we thought it made sense to come back. We felt a certain obligation to come.

“We wanted to give the fans something exclusive here and this seemed like the place to do it.”

Later on, at the Salt session, Jolie spoke enthusiastically about the opportunity to combine hot action and high drama.

“I thought it was one of the smartest scripts I’d read,” she said. “I’d done a lot of action movies, but they’d always been based in fantasy in some way. So it was the first time that I got to do something based in reality. And I think that makes all the action harder and tougher and a lot more fun.”

Not all fun, however. Jolie, who characteristically does her own stunts, was somewhat embarrassed to admit that on Salt, her only serious injury was sustained during one of her more mundane moments.

“Oddly, I got injured in one of the most ridiculously easy stunts in the movie,” she confessed.

“I had to just jump through a door and shoot sideways and roll to the ground . . . and I rolled into a desk. Cracked the front of my head open.

“And then I thought I had some problem, because I couldn’t actually hear anybody. I thought, ‘Oh my God, I have a concussion. But I forgot I still had my earplugs in from (shooting) the gun.”

Ferrell and Fey had kidded a lot earlier in the day about working — or not — with Jolie’s partner, Pitt.

In fact, they recorded their Megamind roles separately.

“But I’m pretty sure we’re going to meet,” Fey insisted.

“I don’t think he wants to meet you,” countered Ferrell, her one-time Saturday Night Live colleague (and the co-star of yet another convention-showcased film, the cop comedy The Other Guys).

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